Crane - PHP code-completion for VS Code

Crane is a productivity enhancement extension for Visual Studio Code that provides code-completion for PHP. It has zero dependencies and largely works with projects of any size. It is still in development, and as such there may be bugs and/or missing features.

Please report any bugs that you find in our issue tracker on GitHub.

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How To Get Started

Install Crane by pressing F1 in VS Code, then typing ext install crane
Open a PHP project
Check the status bar at the bottom and watch Crane parse all the PHP files it finds

Optionally, install the PHP Stubs to get code-completion for the built in PHP classes by pressing F1 in VS Code, then typing crane php stubs and selecting the appropriate option from the list.

For the best development experience, make sure you have the PHP linter enabled in your user settings, and set it to run onType instead of onSave!

Current Features

Code-completion (in progress, not quite 100% complete yet)
- For user created code
- Optionally for built-in PHP functions and classes (such as PDO)

Planned Features:

Go to definition (pressing F12)
Find references
Signature provider to show method parameter suggestions
Hover provider to show information about symbol under the cursor
Peek definition
List symbols
PhpDoc support (both for reading and writing documentation)

User Feedback

Another total must have for PHP developers using Visual Studio Code.
Jan Hajek

That's the tweet I've been waiting for since the first public release of VS Code. Thanks.
Bruno Baketaric

omg omg omg omg omg
Rich Perez

👌👌👌 super awesome.
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Demo

Known Issues

There may be duplicate suggestions for functions or variables. This is because VS Code has it's own (very limited) code-completion support for PHP, and there is currently no way to turn this off.
There can be strange behaviour when working with PHP and HTML in the same file.
If you have a syntax error in a file, you may not get a full list of suggestions for that file.

Links

Please report any bugs you find!

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